Reading group: History and philosophy of race and microbes
As part of the project 鈥淢icrobiome research and race in the 鈥楲ocal South鈥欌�� (Vidi, NWO) we would like to invite you to join us in our new reading group 鈥淗istory and philosophy of race and microbes鈥�. We want to encourage all those interested in microbiome research, colonialism and science, race and ethnicity, health inequalities, philosophy of race and history and philosophy of science to join our meetings. We are happy to receive suggestions on readings related to these and similar topics.
Sessions:
December 3rd at 15:30 CET
鈥淎 Biosocial Return to Race? A Cautionary View for the Postgenomic Era" by Meloni, Maurizio, Tessa Moll, Ayuba Issaka, and Christopher W Kuzawa. 鈥� American Journal of Human Biology: The Official Journal of the Human Biology Council 34, no. 7 (2022): e23742.
Previous sessions:
Wednesday 23 October
鈥淪ocio-Markers and Information Transmission鈥� by Federica Russo, in Giroux, E麓lodie, Francesca Merlin, and Yohan Fayet, eds. 2023. Integrative Approaches in Environmental Health and Exposure Research: Epistological and Practical Issues. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. .
Wednesday 25 September
鈥淩eviving Colonial Science in Ancestral Microbiome Research.鈥� vy Maroney, Stephanie. MicrobioSocial (blog). January 10, 2017. .
Thursday 20 June
Race, populations, and genomics: Africa as laboratory by Lundy Braun and Evelynn Hammonds. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.07.018
Thursday 23 May 15:30 CET (online only)
Race and indigeneity in human microbiome science: microbiomisation and the historiality of otherness by Andrea N煤帽ez Casal
Thursday April 25th 15:30 CET Buys Ballot building 3.45. Readings:
- 鈥淚mpact of Diet in Shaping Gut Microbiota Revealed by a Comparative Study in Children from Europe and Rural Africa鈥� by Carlotta De Filippo, Duccio Cavalieri, Monica Di Paola, Matteo Ramazzotti, Jean Baptiste Poullet, Sebastien Massart, Silvia Collini, Giuseppe Pieraccini, and Paolo Lionetti. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1005963107.
- 鈥淕ut Microbiome Profiling of a Rural and Urban South African Cohort Reveals Biomarkers of a Population in Lifestyle Transition.鈥� By O H Oduaran, F B Tamburini, V Sahibdeen, R Brewster, F X G贸mez-Oliv茅, K Kahn, S A Norris, et al.
Thursday March 28th 15:30 CET Reading 鈥淧hysical anthropology and the quest for the missing link鈥�, Scientific Racism in Modern South Africa by Saul Dubow.
Thursday April 11 15:30 CET Reading Chapter 5 鈥淕hosting Race鈥� from Benezra "Gut anthro : an experiment in thinking with microbes 鈥� (2023).